J0601-3-1 Liquid Water and Gas Flow Simulation in a Porous Medium of PEM Fuel Cells using the Lattice Boltzmann Method

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009.7 (0) ◽  
pp. 133-134
Author(s):  
Yutaka TABE ◽  
Yongju LEE ◽  
Ben Salah YASSER ◽  
Takemi CHIKAHISA
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Fuel Cells ◽  
Lattice Boltzmann Method ◽  
Liquid Water ◽  
Lattice Boltzmann ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Flow Simulation ◽  
Pem Fuel Cells ◽  
Boltzmann Method

scholarly journals 3D Modeling of One and Two Component Gas Flow in Fibrous Microstructures in Fuel Cells by Using the Lattice-Boltzmann Method

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Brinkmann ◽  
D. Froning ◽  
U. Reimer ◽  
V. Schmidt ◽  
W. Lehnert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Cells ◽  
Lattice Boltzmann Method ◽  
3D Modeling ◽  
Lattice Boltzmann ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Two Component ◽  
Boltzmann Method

Numerical Simulation of Condensed Water Behavior in Gas Diffusion Layers of PEFC Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yutaka Tabe ◽  
Ryuji Kamijo ◽  
Yuji Honjo ◽  
Kengo Suzuki ◽  
Takemi Chikahisa
Keyword(s):  
Lattice Boltzmann Method ◽  
Liquid Water ◽  
Lattice Boltzmann ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Gas Diffusion ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Water Behavior ◽  
Condensed Water ◽  
Boltzmann Method

Numerical simulations using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has been developed to elucidate the dynamic behavior of condensed water in a gas diffusion layer (GDL) of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEFC). Here, a LBM model of two-phase flow with equal densities was applied, because the condensed water behavior is less affected by the gas flow. The simulation results showed that the LBM applied here can simulate dynamic capillary fingering at low migration speeds of liquid water in a GDL, which is similar to the results of the LBM simulation with large density differences. Using the equal density LBM, we conducted efficient large-scale analyses to elucidate the effect of the GDL structure and wettability on the liquid water behavior inside of the GDL.

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